Module:Auphen/YCQ-BE

This is the documentation for Module:Auphen/YCQ-BE, the sound data for Besoh (registry code YCQ-BE) on the Yezur wiki. It holds no code and is not invoked directly: Module:Auphen/frame loads it whenever {{auphen}} is called with the code YCQ-BE, and hands its tables to the engine, Module:Auphen. Thus {{auphen|Bëson|YCQ-BE}}, the language's own name, gives /beːsõ/.

Tables

Key	Contents
`ipacats`	The category sets the rules quantify over, written in the sounds the transposition produces.
`ipa_rules`	The initial transposition, mapping the letters of the romanisation to sounds.
`pronounce`	The ordered ruleset that turns a transposed spelling into an estimated pronunciation.
`sets`	Named derivation rulesets. Empty for Besoh; see below.

Orthography

ipa_rules is applied once, to the lower-cased word, before the ruleset runs; keys are tried longest first, though every key here is a single letter. Fifteen letters take a value other than themselves.

Letter	Sound	Letter	Sound
`ä`	aː	`ñ`	ɲ
`ë`	eː	`n`	ŋ
`ï`	iː	`ĥ`	x
`ö`	oː	`ĝ`	ɣ
`ü`	uː	`ǵ`	ʁ
`ś`	ʃ	`c`	ʦ
`ź`	ʒ	`j`	ʣ
`'`	ʔ

The table also carries identity rules for the twenty plain letters a, b, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v and z; a character with no rule of its own passes through unchanged.

The nasal written n is velar and the one written ñ palatal; there is no alveolar nasal in the inventory. The romanisation has no w, x or y: /x/ arises only as the value of ĥ, and /y/ only from the sequence iu.

Pronunciation

Besoh spelling is conservative of an earlier stage of the language, so the transposed form stands some way from the spoken one; the pronounce ruleset supplies the difference. Its lines apply in the order written, and their notation is the engine's (see Module talk:Auphen).

Rules	Effect
`iu/y`	The sequence `iu` is read as the single vowel /y/.
`x/ç/_[F]`	/x/ fronts to /ç/ before a front vowel.
`[B]/[T]/_ŋ#`, `ŋ//[T]_#`	A short vowel before word-final `n` nasalises, and the nasal is then lost: Bëson → /beːsõ/. A long vowel is unaffected, and the nasal stays.
`ʔ/ˀ/[A]_#`	A word-final glottal stop after a vowel weakens to glottalisation.
`b/β/[A]_[A]`, `d/ð/[A]_[A]`, `g/ɣ/[A]_[A]`	The voiced stops lenite to fricatives between vowels.
`e/ɛ/_[C][C]\|_[C]#`, `o/ɔ/_[C][C]\|_[C]#`	The mid vowels lower in a closed syllable, that is before two consonants or before a word-final one.
`e/əː/[A][C]_#`, `e/əː/[A][C][C]_#`, `o/əː/[A][C]_#`, `o/əː/[A][C][C]_#`	A final `e` or `o` standing after a vowel and one or two consonants becomes long /əː/.
`[U]/[M]/_[M]`, `[M]/[U]/_[U]`	Obstruents in contact agree in voicing, the second deciding.
`[M]/[U]/_#`	A word-final voiced obstruent devoices, after the assimilation has run.

The ruleset is segmental only. Besoh stress falls on a heavy penult and otherwise on the antepenult, but it is not estimated and the output carries no stress mark.

Rulesets

sets is empty, so the three-argument form {{auphen|word|YCQ-BE|ruleset}} has nothing to run and reports an unknown ruleset, filing the page in Category:Auphen errors. Besoh grammatical forms are generated instead by Module:Besoh, which backs Template:YCQ-BE-decl and Template:YCQ-BE-conj and carries its own copy of the rules above to gloss the forms in its tables. The two are separate implementations of one sound system: a change made here has to be made there as well.

-- Module:Auphen/YCQ-BE -- sound data for Besoh (registry code YCQ-BE).
-- Pure data, loaded by [[Module:Auphen/frame]].
--   ipacats   : IPA-scope categories used by the ruleset
--   ipa_rules : romanization letter -> IPA sound (initial transposition)
--   pronounce : pronunciation estimation (orthography -> phonetics)
--   sets      : (none -- Besoh inflection is displayed by Module:Besoh,
--               whose pronunciation mirror must be kept in step with this page)
--
-- Besoh spelling is conservative: these rules carry the ten spoken laws.
-- Stress (heavy penult, else antepenult) is not estimated.
return {
  ipacats = {
    ['[B]'] = {'a','e','i','o','u'},
    ['[T]'] = {'ã','ẽ','ĩ','õ','ũ'},
    ['[F]'] = {'i','e','y','iː','eː'},
    ['[A]'] = {'a','e','i','o','u','aː','eː','iː','oː','uː','y','ɛ','ɔ'},
    ['[C]'] = {'p','b','t','d','k','g','q','ʦ','ʣ','f','v','s','z','ʃ','ʒ','x','ɣ','ʁ','h','m','ɲ','ŋ','r','l','β','ð','ç'},
    ['[U]'] = {'p','t','k','f','s','ʃ','ʦ','x'},
    ['[M]'] = {'b','d','g','v','z','ʒ','ʣ','ɣ'},
  },
  ipa_rules = [[
ä/aː
ë/eː
ï/iː
ö/oː
ü/uː
ś/ʃ
ź/ʒ
c/ʦ
j/ʣ
ñ/ɲ
n/ŋ
ĥ/x
ĝ/ɣ
ǵ/ʁ
'/ʔ
a/a
b/b
d/d
e/e
f/f
g/g
h/h
i/i
k/k
l/l
m/m
o/o
p/p
q/q
r/r
s/s
t/t
u/u
v/v
z/z
]],
  pronounce = [[
iu/y
x/ç/_[F]
[B]/[T]/_ŋ#
ŋ//[T]_#
ʔ/ˀ/[A]_#
b/β/[A]_[A]
d/ð/[A]_[A]
g/ɣ/[A]_[A]
e/ɛ/_[C][C]|_[C]#
o/ɔ/_[C][C]|_[C]#
e/əː/[A][C]_#
e/əː/[A][C][C]_#
o/əː/[A][C]_#
o/əː/[A][C][C]_#
[U]/[M]/_[M]
[M]/[U]/_[U]
[M]/[U]/_#
]],
  sets = {},
}

Category	Members	Scope
`[B]`	a, e, i, o, u	The five short oral vowels.
`[T]`	ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ	The five nasal vowels.
`[F]`	i, e, y, iː, eː	The front vowels.
`[A]`	a, e, i, o, u, aː, eː, iː, oː, uː, y, ɛ, ɔ	The oral vowels: the five short, their long counterparts, and /y/, /ɛ/ and /ɔ/, which arise only from a rule. The nasal vowels are not members.
`[C]`	p, b, t, d, k, g, q, ʦ, ʣ, f, v, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, x, ɣ, ʁ, h, m, ɲ, ŋ, r, l, β, ð, ç	The consonants, including /β/, /ð/ and /ç/, which arise only from a rule. The glottal stop is not a member.
`[U]`	p, t, k, f, s, ʃ, ʦ, x	The eight voiceless obstruents that have a voiced counterpart. /q/, /h/ and /ç/ stand outside the set and so take no part in the voicing rules.
`[M]`	b, d, g, v, z, ʒ, ʣ, ɣ	The matching voiced obstruents.

Tables

Categories

Orthography

Pronunciation

Rulesets